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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Rood who wrote (8160)	4/25/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: Roderick Ciferri	Respond to of 16892

Bill: LOL, I picture something like this: Jerry -- "Folks, it's time to introduce our first disgruntled Datek customer, Rod Ciferri...Rod would you come out please? <<audience murmers in anticipation>> <<Rod steps to the stage...eyeballs bulging out in rage...fists clenched to his sides...Datek execs sit there with smug little smiles on their faces and Rolex watches gleaming...Springer gorillas eyeing the moment warily...>> Rod -- <<screaming>> SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY ORDER #HHH-AC-509834? WHERE IS IT YOU GEEKS? Datek Execs -- YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS 'CAUSE WE LIKE THE MARKET MAKERS BETTER THAN YOU, PUNK! <<Rod snaps...lunges at Datek Execs, swinging his fists wildly...trying to land as many punches as possible...manages to escape one Springer gorilla...uses the opportunity to grab the nearest computer which has stated: "http://orders9datek.com contacted, waiting for reply" for the last 10 minutes...rips it out of the wall...raises it over his head...5 Springer gorillas restrain Rod as Datek execs taunt: "You dork, you'll never get the money you lost back, HAAHAHAHA!" Rod escorted off the stage as he is throwing hundred dollar bills at Datek execs and screaming: "HERE YOU WANT MY MONEY? TAKE IT ALL, HAAHAAAAHAA! JUST TAKE IT RIGHT NOW! HEEHEEEE! HEHEEE!>> Epilogue: Rod lives the remainder of his life pennyless and insane at the Happy Hills home for indigent former internet stock traders where his best friend, Bill Rood, spends the rest of his life muttering: "Something is Wrong", "Something is Wrong", "Nasdaq Problems", "Something is Wrong" -- Happy Hills workers greet Bill: "Hi Bill, here's your lunch, how are you today?" Bill replies, "Something is Wrong." Meanwhile, Datek execs cash out some stock options and buy some more Gulfstream Jets and Mansions... And so ends the strange, terrible saga of the story how Datek drove seemingly sane customers into raving, drooling lunatics in need of constant supervision and medication... So let that be a lesson to you, kids...when someone you have entrusted a lot of your money to tells you "Something is Wrong" but doesn't tell you what it is...Take your money and run away as fast as possible... Or you might end up like poor Rod and Bill.